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Because the script has so much room for explanation, it goes deep into the story in ways the movie couldn't. Just how did Leia and the rebels get those plans for the Death Star? The radio script takes you to their schemes. If it wasn't powerful enough to watch Alec Guiness reel in pain on the Falcon when he said. "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror," you can experience that disturbance by forming an attachment of your own to the citizens of Alderaan...
...depicted as a hippie commune where hunting is forbidden unless ecologically appropriate. For goodness sake, no matter what kind of a threat the Empire is, the people of Alderaan would never dream of taking up arms to defend themselves. Is it a wonder, with this PC weirdness, that Leia joined the rebel alliance? They don't do her character any favors either, but at least the script makes clear all the ambiguities between her and Luke and Han which were so baffling to me as a child...
...Princess Leia has had a baby and fictionalized it. Carrie Fisher, author and screenwriter of Postcards From the Edge and Surrender the Pink has again made art imitate life by using her own life as the source for her latest novel, Delusions of Grandma. The absolute Hollywood insider, Fisher had a baby, so her novel is having...
...Holly hunter, "The Piano"--Overcomes mute button and Princess Leia hairdo...
When he was nine, his father took him to see Star Wars. Like many thousands of youngsters, he went back as often as he could scrape up the money for another ticket. But while other kids fantasized about becoming Luke Skywalker or Princess Leia, Singleton's hero was director George Lucas. He soon began drawing scenes on sheets of paper and flipping the pages to create crudely animated "movies." During his senior year in high school, inspired by an English teacher with a passion for good writing, he decided on an alternate route to filmmaking: screenwriting. He enrolled...